I have a friend that is allergic to hops and can not drink our beer (or just about any others for that matter). What alternatives do I have if I want to make a beer for him? What could I substitute ...

I'm about to brew a ginger beer and was wondering if the choice of yeast is as important in a ginger beer, where the ginger dominates the flavour.
I've got the yeast-under-the-cap packet and a US-05 ...

I'm making a cream ale and just moved it into a new carboy for secondary fermentation. While siphoning it over, I noticed that there's a lot of solid creamy substance still in the beer. Maybe I did ...

I'm reading a recipe for a Sanctification clone, which is one of Russian Rivers Blonde Sour Ales. The recipe for the yeast read as such
Brettanomyces bruxellensis culture, Wyeast 3112 or White Labs ...

I've brewed my second beer, it's starting gravity was 1120. It didn't seem to want to get a gravity below 1050 after 9 days, so i added champagne yeast. Two days later it dropped down to 1042. 4 days ...

I recently made a 1 gallon batch of Brooklyn Brew Shop's Canadian Red Ale. As it was absolutely incredible, I want to make it again. I have searched everywhere for a list of ingredients but have not ...

i'm looking to plant my own hops in my yard (yes i know i'm late. researching for next year). however, i'm trying to figure out roughly how many say cascade rhizomes i would need to make this worth my ...

I have 2 bars, both with lager kegs. One is gassed with co2 and the other is with mixed 60/40. Can I use a half used keg from one bar in the other, ie mixing the gasses in the keg or do I need to de ...

I'm a ginger beer neophyte, but I love the stuff and can't find it in my area. I decided to brew and have two, three gallon glass carboys working(?) In one I used an extract, champagne yeast, sugar ...

Is there a limit on how many times you can re-use a hop bag?
I use the bag to make a hop tea to drop into the fermenter to flavor my beer.
I clean the bag by boiling it in water for 5 minutes before ...

I'm wondering if someone could give some guidance on how I could go about starting up my own home brew. I have very little experience with brewing (I've only ever drunk beer), and I'd like to know the ...

This might sound like a weird question, but there I go. From what I read and learnt "dry hopping adds fragile aromatic oils".
I wanted to know where do these oils settle in the carboy? On top of the ...

I've just moved from a Condo into a house, where I am now paying for heat.
In the area that my Domestic Sergeant Major has permitted me to brew in, the temperature varies from 16° to 21° C throughout ...

I'm homebrewing using a Northern Brewer starter kit, but I seem to be losing quite a lot of beer. I'm starting with 5 gallons in my primary fermeter, but by the time I bottle I end up with roughly 3.9 ...

Okay, so my friend and me made an experiment yesterday. We wanted to brew a >20%, 300+ IBU IIPA.
Yeah yeah... I know :)
Now to the question. We used 10.5kg of grain for 26.25 liters of water for the ...

Might be a weird question!
I have brewed, with a friend, 6 batches of beer so far. An IPA, then a Stout, a Saison, a Doppelbock, an Baltic Porter and finally, the same IPA. All grain, always.
Of all ...

Last weekend 2 of my friends and me tried brewing a lager (doppelbock) for the first time. Brewing went well, but not the yeast!
We are now 4 days later, and no sign of activity. Gravity taken: did ...

I've moved into a house with no access under the house. I was thinking of brewing beer in a shadowy corner of the backyard.
My question is - is it practical to brew beer in your backyard using a box ...

Approximately how low can the finishing gravity of a beer be? I've been brewing from kits for about 10 years, and went all-grain last year. I wouldn't expect to see anything lower than 1.006 or so, ...

I brewed my first home written beer recipe in the end of last year, now I want to improve the beer.
It was a simple single hops pale ale recipe, brewed in a 5L container, so it was a very small batch ...

I found this link the other day on how to make beer from stale bread. It seems like it is legitimately working, but at the same time, it doesn't seem very clear on it's alcohol adjustments. My goal is ...

The last batch of beer I have made seems to have a lot more sediment in it than any of my other beers. It has been sitting for 3 weeks and some of the bottles when I pour have gloopy looking sediment ...